When you look at this design, your first thought may be, “It looks TOO HARD for me.”
That couldn’t be FURTHER from the truth.
I love the texture that is so easily added to your blank alternating blocks…..
It is as easy as “JUMPING OFF A LOG”…… sorry….couldn’t resist!!
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I am starting to build momentum with my appliqué garden.
One of the problems I struggled with was how to mark the designs and how to hold them onto the background while I did the hand stitching.
Previously, I had glued all of the petals together and glued the entire flower to the background. The problem was that the petals came loose as I manipulated the fabric to reach the appliques, OR (even worse), the thread wrapped around the loose petals!!
So, I needed a change of plans!!
Before placing the third flower, I put my pattern underneath and had a good look.
I am about to stitch another of the long, spindly flowers, but this one will be partially covered by the lower daisy……
This time, I decided to do a rough drawing of where the flower would be placed….
…. a VERY ROUGH drawing!!
It worked well, as I was able to place the petals one at a time and then appliqué them…
…and I quickly had the flower completed….
I did make one change for the final of these flowers. I was more careful with my marking so that I knew EXACTLY where each petal was going….
That made it much easier to place the petals!
We are flying now…… more next week!
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Who knew I would enjoy hand-appliqué SO much!
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We have finally worked through all of the the UFO’s that my Mom left for me. I consider this next one to be MY UFO rather than hers.
In the past, Mom and I had worked on a couple of collaborative quilts. The first was this one….
Mom had appliqued tons of these gorgeous flower blocks…..
…but couldn’t figure out what to do with them. I stepped in and turned them into a flower showcase!!
Next, I found a pattern from “Piece O’ Cake designs and sent Mom blocks to applique. Those I turned into this wonderful quilt…
There were WAY TOO MANY borders in this quilt’s making!!
Since that had been so successful, I sent another set of blocks….
….and she proceeded to quickly applique them and send them back.
At this point, her eyesight was failing, so these blocks aren’t quite at the same quality level.
But they are BEAUTIFUL and truly need to be finished into a quilt.
….And they will be…..SOMEDAY!!
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